Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten voices

Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten voices

(#0679CJ6)

Hardcover Candlewick Press, 2013

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Description: xiii, 127 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Dewey: 818; Audience: Young Adult
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From Follett

Introduction -- Becoming Henry Lee / David Yoo -- Why I won't be watching the Last Airbender movie / Gene Luen Yang -- Talent show / Cherry Cheva -- Voila! / Debbie Rigaud -- Three-pointer / Mitali Perkins -- Like me / Varian Johnson -- Confessions of a Black geek / Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich -- Under Berlin / G. Neri -- Brotherly love / Francisco X. Stork -- Lexicon / Naomi Shihab Nye. Shares stories about growing up in diverse homes or communities, from an Asian youth who gains temporary popularity by making up a false background, to a biracial girl whose father clears subway seats by calmly sitting between two prejudiced women.

From the Publisher
Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race. Listen in as ten YA authors — some familiar, some new — use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers that pretending to be a tai chi master or a sought-after wiz at math wins him friends for a while — until it comically backfires. A biracial girl is amused when her dad clears seats for his family on a crowded subway in under a minute flat, simply by sitting quietly in between two uptight white women. Edited by acclaimed author and speaker Mitali Perkins, this collection of fiction and nonfiction uses a mix of styles as diverse as their authors, from laugh-out-loud funny to wry, ironic, or poingnant, in prose, poetry, and comic form.
Product Details
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press
  • Publication Date: September 10, 2013
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Dewey: 818
  • Description: xiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Tracings: Perkins, Mitali, editor.
  • ISBN-10: 0-7636-5866-9
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-5866-3
  • LCCN: 2012-955218
  • Follett Number: 0679CJ6
  • Audience: Young Adult